On
Lionel Kearns is a binary meditation in Shockwave on the work of
Vancouver poet Lionel Kearns.
Kearns is one of few poets who has been thinking about digital
poetics and the synthesis implied by electronic media since the
sixties.
On
Lionel Kearns is a tribute to Kearns's polyartistic synthesis of arts,
media, language and the binary, and extends his
experimental poetics into software art. All texts by Lionel Kearns except
where noted.
Jim Andrews is a poet/programmer/audio guy/critic.
He has been publishing vispo.com since
1995. Recent work includes: Digital
Writing Circa 2004, written for
a talk in England; Paris
Connection, a project in critical
media on six Parisian artists; Arteroids,
a literary game for the Web; and Nio,
interactive audio/visual music.